Hame-strap



(No Model.)

B. QUINCEY.

HAME STEAL Patented May 10,1898.

PATENT Prion.

RICHARD QUINCEY, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.

HAM E-S TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,987, dated May 10,1898.

' Application filed September 2, 1897. Serial No. 650,422. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD QUINCEY, of El Paso, in the county of ElPaso and State of Texas, have invented anew and Improved Strap to beUsed as a Hame-Strap or other Tightening-Strap, of which the followingisa full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a strap that will reduce tothe minimum the liability to tear at the buckle-tongue, to increase thestrength and durability of the strap, and by the use of it to sodistribute the strain over all parts of the strap as to prevent theliability to break or tear.

The invention consists of the construction and combination of parts, ashereinafter described and claimed.

Theinvention also consists in the way the strap is made, having thebuckle nearer the center of the strap instead of the end and with bothends of the strap free.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying photos or drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure I is the metallic hame-strap loophook, one end of' which, A, ishook-shaped and is fastened into the loop on the hame. (See Fig. III,0.) Fig. II represents the strap attached to the said metal loop-hook.Fig. III represents the improved strap and loophook attached to thehames ready for use.

The strap is passed through the opening B in the metal loop-hook, sothat it is two thicknesses from said loop-hook past the point where itstands in the other hame, the buckle D being placed in the strap betweenthe two thicknesses of leather below and near the metal loop-hook. Themetal loop-hook is hooked into the hame C and then closed. The strap isthen inserted in the loop on the other hame H from the outside and isbrought through until the short end of the strap E passes through thehame-loop H. It is then passed through the loop 0, over the loophook,and through the buckle D.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent A hame-strap doubled back on itself andfastened so as to form two loops, a metallic hook secured in the outerloop, anda buckle and keeper held by the second loop, whereby thewearing strain is taken off from the main portion of the strap by thehook and looped portion and whereby the strain on the buckle ispartially removed, substantially as described.

RICHARD QUINCEY.

"Witnesses: I

F. E. HUNTER, A. AINSA.

